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SUMTER. 8. C.t SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1913.
Vol. XXXVII. No. 14.
YUAN THOLE CHINA.
IN CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF NEW
REPt BLIC BY TWO-THIRDS
VOTE.
On Third Ballot He Secures one More
Than Number Required by Const I
titatlon?Something of Mnn Who
Will Be at Head of C hina.
Peking. China Oct. 6.?Yuan Shi
Kai wae today ei se? ad president of the
Chtneee republic for a term of five
year*. He received the neceaeary two
thirds vote of tlie united house of
parliament on the third ballot.
Of the 850 mnmbers of the house
of repreeentatlves and senate. 759
were In attendance. At the final ballot
Yuan Shi Kal received 607, only one
more than the neceeeary two-thirds.
Li Yuen Heng, provisional vice pres?
ident, received 17t votea
The ether ballots were scattered
among JO minor candidates. Li Yuen
Men, it was declared, had asserted
that he would not take the nomina?
tion. The announcement of the re?
sult was received with enthusiasm.
The proceedings lasted 12 hours.
The constitution of the republic
provides that at least two-thirds of
the members of parliament present
must cast their vote tor a candidate
la order to accomplish his election. It
ahm - all* for the presence at a pres?
idential election of three-fourths of
the member* of both houses.
In all parts of the country the
greatest Interest was manifested in
today's proceedings, the first presi?
dential election in the history of the
new republic. The new president
will hold office for five years.
Whan the united houses of parlia?
ment came together this morning the
register recorded that 759 representa?
tives Were present. The first ballot
took a considerable time, owing to
the> fact that the deputies and sena?
tors were not familiar with the pro?
ceedings. The candidates Included,
besides Provisional President Yuan
8hl Xel. Tsal Heng, a "black horse"
candidate I>r Wu Ting Fang, form?
es* Chinese minister at Washington,
and Dr. dun Yet Sen. leader of the
***9W%eelr4*cAji moveumnt.
Yuan Shi Kal, first president of the
Chinese republic, is 64 years old. He
was born in the province of Ho-Nau
hi 1119. During most of his adult
life he has been In official life. At
the age of 23 he was sent with a
tChinese detachment to Korea and
three years afterward becume Chinese
Imperial resident at Seoul. He re?
mained t tie re 1H years, until he was
eapelled during the Chinese-Japanese
war.
(>n his return to China he occupied
tSMious provincial posts until 1902,
when he became consulting minister
to the government.
Yum Shi Kal too < a prominent part
In the reorganisation of the Chinese
army on modern lines and in the clos?
ing years of the empire became its
m?st Influential and powerful states?
man. He was alwayi thoroughly prac?
tical in bis methods of administration
ami by this means worked his way
up to the premiership in 1911.
Early in 1912 it was he who was
given full powers to arrange the terms
of abdication of the throne and to
organise a republican government in
conference with the republican lead?
ers Shortly afterward, in February,
he was ehcted provisional president
of the republic by the national coun?
cil at Nanking and took the oath of
ottlce on March 10.
Washington. Oct. 6.?As a result of
the elec tion by the Chinese parlia?
ment today of Yuan Shi Kal as pres?
ident all of the powers that huvc not
already done so will formally rc:og
nlie the new Ch'ncse republic tomoi
row, according |Sj a rstJOft to the tMte
department from American Charge
Willlama,
(OMER >N PRISON CONTRACT.
CIsMHMbI Sander* Says Board i??
Considering Matter?May Decide
Tonight.
Columiba, <? I 8,?Chairman A. K
Sanders of the penitentiary board ol
dlicctors stated this afternoon that
tho board la considering the Martin
contra, t with reference la convict
labor, but there I* nothing for pub
llrstion now. The SWftfd may decide
Its policy this OYealng TUe attorney
general'* otllce re ently ga\e tllS
opinion that the ? *.r?t i - \u <\
framed WiH t.lie-sided SgalflSl Mo
State The nt attoi n?-> uei . | , I
met with the hoard this morning,
I'll to date 1 I || I b ties ?.f e- tton
have been Mold i>n the local market.
One thousand and seven SStOS of cot
|S*J were gsM on the local mattet
Saturday, totaling 1*111 halSf for the
week.
GRAND JURY HEARS CHIEF.
CANTWELL TELLS OF EFFORTS
TO CURB LAWLESSNESS.
Judge Bowman Charge* Grand Jury
to Perform It* Duly, Presenting
Any Perwrn who Ought to be
Brought Into Court?Club? Report?
ed to be Among Places Accused of
Vlolutlng i he Dispensary Law In
Charleston.
News and Courier, Oct. 7.
Chief of Police James R. Cantwell
appeared before the grand jury yes?
terday morning and described what
, the police department was doing to?
ward keeping down lawlessness in the
city, with especial reference, to work
In the Tenderloin. Besides him, no
one appeared before the jury at its
meeting yesterday and the meeting
was very much in the natura of Satur?
day's, when the situation was merely
discussed by the jurors among them?
selves. The grand Jury adj >urned af?
ter this session to meet again Wednes?
day morning.
Over four hundred cases have been
placed in the hands of the grand
jury, practically all of which, it is un?
derstood, concern violations of the
dispensary law. Clubs are included in
tho number.
Before the grand jury went to its
room to deliberate Presiding Judge I.
W. Bowman charged the jury in no
uncertain terms as to its duty. He
Invited any juror who did not feel
able to do his duty in these cases to
step aside, but none accepted the in?
vitation. A copy of Judge Bowman's
charge is printed below through the
courtesy of Court Stenographer Henry
D. Elllett:
"Mr. Foreman and gentlemen of
the grand jury:
"As I endeavored to tell you when
I tirst addressed you, you are the
guardians of the law in your com?
munity. There is an old saying that
everybody's business is nobody's busi?
ness, therefore our lawmakers in their
wisdom have seen fit to appoint a
grand Jury to keep their eyes open
and see what is going on end bring
to Justice the lawbreakers, and you
have never done your full duty until
you have brought the lawbreakers to
Justice. Wherever there is a wrong
t here is a remedy, and if tnere are any
lawbreakers in your community it is
your duty to bring them to Justice.
If you cannot do it by one means you
can hy another; our law kj not help?
less, we have tho machinery to put in
motion to bring any one to Justice.
"If the magistrates, on account of
some influence have not the moral
courage to bring to trial the violators
of the] law the grand jury have, or
should have, and when you are
brought here before the public as
good and lawful men you must prove
to the public that you are good and
lawful men, and if you find that the
law is being violated and lawbreak?
ers have not been arrested and bound
over and brought before you it is
your duty to present these lawbreak?
ers and hand to the solicitor the
! names of the witnesses by whom you
can prove the violations of the law,
and then the solicitor will frame a
bill und you cun pass on It and bring
in a true bill.
"Remember, it is not your duty to
convict any one. You ar? to investi?
gate and see if a prima facie case has
been made out, and if it has it is your
duty as fearless, honorable men to
present them, and you will never do
your duty if you do anything less.
Vou are not to say if any one is guilty,
but you say that from information
which you have received the laws of
your city have been violated and so
ami si> has violated them and by
whom you Ogg prove It, and hand thut
to the solicitor.
"If there is any one on the grand
Jury whO| does not care to do his duty
let him stand aside. Twelve men are
sufficient, but I trust there is not a
nian on that grand jury Who will not
stand up and do his duty and see that
the laws of our State arc enforced.
Yon want your laws enforced, and the
enforcement of your laws must be ax
SSftelfl as you egg make it.
"Hetire and look over the Held and
bring in any ens who you think oUgtll
to be prs* Mtcd."
ANOTHER SENATORIAL CAN DI?
DATE.
Mr. MuCruvcf of Ptckens Enters the
Race Against Senator Smith.
Columbia, Oet k.?a personal
message to thli bureau states thai B.
P, McCraveXi of Ptckens, has jusi
announced fot the United states Sen?
at?-. Mr. McCravey introduced the
locul optun eompuisorv education bill
Wtll< Ii was BigSSed at the i?ist session
of the legslature in the house and
killed Uteri u d
WOULD HASTEN CURRENCY.
WILSON WILL INQUIRE INTO
CAUSE OF DELAYS IN SEN?
ATE.
President Will Uhc Ills Utmost En?
deavor to Have Congress Make
Progress in Currency Legislation?
Dellcve? That ClUor Objections to
Rill Come from Rig Rankers.
Washington, bet. 6.?President
Wilson tomorrow will begin confer?
ences with Democratic senators look?
ing to the acceleration of the admin?
istration currency bill's progress
through the senate. The president
has been informed that some mem?
bers of the senate banking and cur?
rency committee plan to continue the
hearings two weeks longer and con?
sume a month thereafter in work?
ing over the bill. He looks upon this
programme as likely to throw the
currency discussion in the December
session of congress and postpone a
vote indefinitely, and he will endeavor
to ascerta in {rom members*' 'd^ff iht
committee and Democratic senators
generally what are the causes of de
lay.
At the White House it was stated
today that the president would feel
justified in using every legitimate
means to forward the progress of the
bill towards the statute books before
the end of the present session.
Significant in the day's develop?
ments on the situation were remarks
which the president made to callers to
the effect that objections to the ad?
ministration bill came chiefly from,
big bankers, who feared that the con?
trol of the country's financial system;
would be taken from their hands by
the new measure. Referring to a
large number of telegrams and letters
from bankers throughout the country,
approving the bill, the president call?
ed particular attention to the fact
that some of these bankers had re?
quired that their names be not made
public. He also told some of those
with whom he discussed the subject'
that if the people of the country
knew the real state of affairs with
reference to the opposition to the cm;
rency bill they will regard it as ridi?
culous.
Various rumors were current at the
capitol when the president's views be
came known there
One report had it that Mr Wilson
contemplated issuing a statement in
the near future with special reference
to the relations between the big bank?
ers and small bankers who had voiced
their opposition to the administration
bill during the recent hearings There
was no confirmation of this at the
White House
CHANGES DEMANDED
Cankers' Association Conference! Ob?
jects to N timorous Features of
Currency Hill
Boston* Mass., Oct. 6.?Opposition
to certain features of the Gluss bill,
which provides for a reform in the
national currency and banking sys?
tem, today was voiced at a special
conference of over 700 country bank?
ers attending the 39th annual con
. vention of the American Bankers' as
! sociatlon. That a new banking sys
1 tern was needed was admitted and the
administration was commended for
trying to pass one.
In resolutions udopted almost un
anlmously these bankers who claim to
represent about 75 per cent of all the
banks in the United States declared
that unless the Glass bill or federal
reserve act is amended along lines
proposed by them, ' very few country
banks, either State or national, can
afford to become members of the new
federal system."
By country banks, it was explained
in the call for the conference, was
meant banks operating under either
State or national charters whose cap?
ital is not less than $25,000 nor more
than $250,000.
The resolutions were offered by
George W. Rogers of Little Rock, Ark.
The exchange and savings sections
i of the bill, the resolution added, would;
make most erf the country banks show;
net operating losses.
MILLION GALLONS OF OIL
AFIRE.
Standard Oil to Lose $000,000 In Sau
Diego Fire.
L
San Diego, Hal., Oct, ??.?Burning
.-tt the rate of five Inches an hour,
the 1,000,000-gsllon crude oil tank of
the Standard 'Ml Company, which
raygh! Are yeaterday, still was bias?
ing today, and will be at noon tomor?
row, according to present estimates,
Tank after tank of naphtha, stove
oil and distillate has been consumed,
Snd|the loss, it Is said, will be $S00,?
ouu.
Mm Si.
E. 0. SMITH IN COLUMBIA.
JUNIOR SENATOR CONFIDENT
RE WILL BE RE-ELECTED.
Has Little to Say About Coming
Race, But Talks Freely of National
Affairs?Expects Much Benellt to
Farmers From Democratic Tariff
and Currency Laws?Mum on Dis?
trict Attorncyshlp?Delivers Ad?
dress at Wesley Bible Conference
in Columbia.
Columbia, Oct. 7.?Expressing con?
fidence in his ability to defeat Gov?
ernor Cole L. Blease in the primaries
next summer, United States Senator
E. D. Smith would comment no fur?
ther on the race than to say "I will
succeed myself." He listened to ques?
tions about politics and showed that
he is keeping up with every develop?
ment, but would add nothing more.
He had nothing to say when told of
the conference of the Blease leaders,
which has been called for Fair week
to outline the Blease programme for
capturing the State Convention, and
the Democratic executive committee
next spring.
Senator Smith would not say any?
thing on the tangle over the appoint?
ment of a United States district at?
torney and marshal for South Caro?
lina. He gave it as his opinion that
the bill, which has been introduced 1
in the senate by Senator Tillman and
in the house by Congressman Alken,
providing for the division of the
State into two federal districts, would
become law.
Senator Smith talked interestingly
on national matters, and is satisfied
the passage of the new tariff bill
will work greatly to the advantage of
the country, and cspscially to the
farmers. He thinks the banking and
currency bill will be passed by the
senate, and that along with the re?
duction in the tariff duties the farm?
ers win benefit greatly.
"Tho outlook for the agricultural
interests is brighter than I have ever
known it, and there is more general
interest manifested in farming and
?farmers along practical lines than ev
^cr, before,",be^said, "With the tariff
adjusted and with the banking and
currency law so framed as to give the
farmers equal facilities for credit,
along with other branches and inter?
ests, I think there is a brighter fu?
ture today than ever before for the
farmers since the passage of our war
banking and currency measure. Tht
farmers have waited long enough and
borne the burden long enough to be
recognized," said the senator,
Senator Smith thinks the present
session of congress will run right into
the regular session. He believes the
currency bill will get through the up?
per branch in time for the regular
session. The junior senator has only
praise for the Wilson administration
and warmly commended the wofk of
Secretary McAdoo in depositing Gov?
ernment money in the Southern and
Western banks to assist in moving
the crops, and thinks this prevented a
panic.
Senator Smith reached hero this af?
ternoon and tonight addressed the
Wesley Bible Conference att Main
Street Methodist Church on "Back to
the Bible and the Faith of Our Fa?
thers," stressing the responsibility o*
the individual.
The senator is a guest or the Jeffer?
son Hotel, and is being greeted by
scores of his friends. Many men
cal'.ed at his room in the hotel to
shake hands with and assure him that
he would be re-elected United States
senator.
Senator Smith is accompanied by
his wife, and they are attending the
sessions of the Wesley Bilde Confer?
ence. They will return tomorrow to
their home in Florence and plan to
go back to Washington the latter
part of the week.
WILL RECOGNIZE CHINA.
Powers Moved by Result of Election
of Yuan Shi Kai.
Washington, Oct. t?.?*vs a result
of the election by the Chinese Parlia?
ment today of Yuan Shi Kai as pres?
ident all of the Powers that have
not already done so, will formally
recognise tin- new Chinese Republic
tomorrow, according to a report to
the State department from Ameri?
can Charge Williams.
Tenant House Burned.
A negro dwelling house on Mr. A.
W. Newman's place in the Concord
section was burned Tuesday about
noon, the occupants losing everything
they had in the building. All of them
wer?' away at the time picking cot?
ton and arrived too late to nave any?
thing from the fire. The building
was n frame structure with brick
chimneys and the loss is considerable
to Mr. Newman, . ^ - ^ _
*S A . J* ..< ? I S S
BRYAN PRAISES WILSON.
SECRETARY OF STATE TELLS OF
PRESIDENT'S GOOD
POINTS.
Wilson Always Takes the View of the
People, a Distinguishing Feature of
Executive, Say* Commoner.
Spartanburg, Oct. 7.?W. J. Bryan,
secretary of State, addressed an au?
dience of 1,5 00 people here tonight in
Converse college auditorium and af?
terwards he and Mrs. Bryan held a
reception and shcok hands with prac?
tically every person in the audience.
He was introduced by Former Gov.
John Gary Evans. Mr. Bryan took
as his subject "President Woodrow
Wilson's Point of View." He paid an
eloquent tribute to the president,
showing how upon every issue he
takes the people's view. His address
was said by many to have been the
greatest they had ever heard him de?
liver. He touched upon the four great
issues that the present administration
has had to deal with?the tariff?he
said the bill just passed was a better
bill than he had ever hoped, for par?
ticularly commending the income tax
feature?the currency question, the
attitude of the administration toward
the Philippines, Si just announced by
Francis Burton Harrison, the newly
appointed governor general of the isV
lands, and the administration's pear *
programme, oontemplating investiga-"
tion and report upon all questions of
difference arising between the na?
tions of the world.
Upen each of these questions Mr.
Bryan spoke at length, making par?
ticularly clear the prevision of the
currency bill now before congress and
advocating its passage. Answering the
demand of certain banking interests
of the country that they be allowed to
have the naming of members of the
commission or board, that is, to* have
supervision of the banking business,
under the provision of the bill as it
now stands, he asked why the bank?
ers should be more entitled to name
such gj commission than the railroads
to elc'.-t the members of the inter
I Mate commerce commission. He said
the people trusted the government in
everything else, and would have to
trust it in handling their fiscal affairs.
Mr. Bryan closed with an account
of administration's efforts in further?
ing the cause of world-wide peace,
saying that four-fifths of the nations
of the world have indorsed the policy
advanced by the United States. He re?
gards this as a great step toward
making wars improbable.
Mr. Bryan, accompanied by Mrs.
Bryan, arrived in Spartanburg this
afternoon at 6.30 o'clock from King's
Mountain, N. C, making the 45 mile
trip in, an automobile. Tonight he and
Mrs. Bryan are the guesti Of Former
Go\. John Gary Evans. They will
leave tomorrow morning tor Asheville
where they will spend a day or so.
A delegation from Spartanburg met
Mr. Bryan In King's Mountain with
cars. Mrs. Bryan was especially pleas?
ed with the plan to make the trip
through the country and she express?
ed herself as delighted with the jour?
ney. In the car with Mr. Bryan were
Mr. at * Mrs. Elwood Bell and John
F. Floyd, mayor-elect, of this city. Be?
fore lecving King's Mountain it was
understood than there was to be no
exceeding the speed limit. Mr. Bryan
asked t lat the speeding not exceed
20 mile* an hour and his wishes were
respected. At Converse the car in
which he was riding had a blow-out, |
but the second car, taken along for
just such an emergency, picked up the
party and brought them Into the city.
Many persons along the rend recog?
nized Mr. Bryan and cheered him.
SHAKE CP IN HUUBRTA CABINET
Interchange of Ministers with Ex?
ception of War Department.
Mexico City, Oct. '3.?Ar other gen?
eral shake-up in the Huerta cabinet
today has resulted in a compete in
terchrnge of ministers with the cx
Ception of tin; war department. Min?
isters were shifted from one depart?
ment to another and in two in?
stances substitute secretaries were
promotod. Gen. Aurelian? Blanquet
retains the minister of the war oe
partment*
EMPEROR SHARES WITH WIDOW
Germany's Ruler to Take Only Ono
Half of Big Estate Left Htm.
Merlin. Oct. 8. -Emperor William
today agreed to s compromise In
Connection with th?- estate <if $800,
000 left to him bj Herman Knorr, s
patriotic but eccentric wood dealer
of Kniischwlts. He b:is consented to
take one-halt and allow lite widow
to keei Ulu remainder.
FAVOR THREE BATTLESHIPS.
AIM OF DEMOCRATIC ADMINIS?
TRATION TO INCREASE POW?
ER OF NAVY.
Will Spend Money on Ships and not
on Rocks and Navy Yards? Num?
ber of Submarines and Torpedo
Unat Destroyers Wanted?Policy
for December Legislation Doing
Mapped Out.
Washington, Oct. 7.?Three new
battleships and a proportionate num?
ber of submarines and torpedo boat
destroyers is the aim of the Wilson
administration in shaping its naval
policy for the December session of
congress. It became known today
that in all probability Secretary Dan?
iels of the navy department would pur.
into effect his principle of "less money
ashore and more afloat" and advocate
the greater part of an appropriation
of $148,000,000 to build three power?
ful warships?more than the
usual annual- A, though only a
single battlf /was obtained at a
stormy di/^ /n in the last session
of congy?
Witbjf addition of throe ilrtt
class . -ships naval men hope the
Uni'^ .ates will resume its place
nc ^ ?reat Britain in naval fighting
i/^ tb, passing Germany, which
? second place when the United
7 ^tes dropped to third.
}\ Secretary Daniels declared today
that he was not yet ready to make
any announcements, as he was still
studying the question with heads of
the bureaus in his department. The
plans of the administration are ex?
pected, however, to crystal ise after
President Wilson and Secretary Dan-?
iels confer ,soon with heads of the
congressional committees on appro?
priations and naval affairs, as the
annual estimates for naval construc?
tion are due to be filed for the regu?
lar session of congress by Ot tober 15.
While President Wilson has made no
public declaration on the battleship
question, taking the attitude during
campaign days that he ought not to
interfere at the time with the activi?
ties of the Demoerscg* lap
is understood he favors "arT aHeql
navy."
As the phiase is being used in ad?
ministration circles, U is taken to
mean that the policy of the general
! navy board, laid d< wn nearly a de?
cade ago, of providing two battleships
annually will be supported lereafter
with an extra ship this time to make
up for the loss of one at the last ses?
sion of congress.
The ol?ui now considered s to ex?
pend ss money on shore stations,
doc1 >ards and other land ecuipment
of the navy and even cut d >wn the
number of small boats, thereby
! launching three big and powerful
men-of-war without materially in?
creasing the naval appropriation.
The new ships would be equipped
with 12-inch guns and with a dis?
placement of 30,000 tons, and would
be of medium speed, a compromise
between the battleship-cruiser type
of the British and Japanese navies
and the. heavy bulldog of lo w speed
of German construction.
isjyjsjrinfjtt
adeq?Ss
capital cm: NEWS.
Dispensary Sales During September
Announced?Florence Docs Big
Business?Working for Tax Equal?
ization.
Columbia, Oct. 8.?Total dispensary
sales announced today for September
were $233,760. In Charleston the
sales arc falling off, being $8DO less
than f.ir the previous month. Flor?
ence sold $52,441 worth liq tor in
September. The city of Columbia's
prollts for the quarter jusi ended
were $33,220. for ihe county
$19,000 and for the schools $13,00?.
Riehland county sold $75,000 worth
of booze last month.
The comptroller general today fired
the first gun for equalization of taxes
in a letter to Columbia Board of As?
sessors. The hoard wrote Mr. Jones
asking for instructions for making
t he assessments.
"It is nceessary first to as< ertain
the actual fair market value >f the
property to he assessed." writes Mr.
Jones. He points out that liter a
certain percentage can be applied.
"Hope the legislature will tako
?onu action to remedy tax diffi?
culties." said Mr. Jones today.
Peking, net. 7.?No further t dings
of the Americana and Korwesjians
captme I by the bandits at Tsao Yang
lias he, i) received. The governor of
Slang l-'u has notified the govern?
ment at Peking that he recently sent
a man Into the Tsao Vang district
disguise i ss a beggar to >;et whatever
he could concerning the captives, but
the man luts xiot yet returned*